I have been there and made several avatars and saved them so it's safe. (I did it from a mac, so if anyone has any trouble I think I might be able to help. To upload it, hit the 'save' button when you're done and it'll go to your desktop or wherever you wish ^^)

This would also be FANTASTIC to make RP characters with ^^ Saves on a loooooot of description ^^

I got this from a public forum here but I think it's neat that we can kinda get the gist of someone we are talking to/rping with all the time ^^. This is pretty close to what I look like: